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HOST CHAPTER—Nu Chapter of Savannah wnicb will serve as
hostess to Iota Phi Lambda Regional meeting which will be
at Savannkh State College March 8 —11,.
Standing (left to rignu Sorors Marion N. Starr, Miriam F.
Grant, journalist; Irene M. Williams, Josie B. Scott, Thelma T.
Lee, corresponding secretary.
Btty 715 To
Crown
The young ladies of
who have been so hospitable
and friendly to the soldiers
Camp Stewart will be given
opportunity to vie for the
of "Miss Headquarters
The occasion will be the
dance of Headquarters
at Service Club No. 3,
Stewart, on Friday
Marcli 9 at 8 p m
All the young charmers
expected to be dolled up in
their prettiest irocks to add
Mother Nature’s great work
this occasion.
Mrs. Wilson, hostess at
Club No 3, will be assisted
Miss Willie Mae Young,
Continued on Page 3
Deltas To
Meet Here
Mrs. Clemmie E. Webber,
rector of the Southern R.egior
of the Delta Sigma Theta So¬
rority, Inc., announces
plans have been completed fo
*he annual Southern
Conference to be held
March 23-24. The theme of th<
meeting will be “Human Right,
from Charter to Practice.”
An interesting program
Miss Dorothy I. Height, the
national president of the so
rority. as principal speaker,
be presented Friday
March 23, at St. Philip
church, Charles and West
streets to which the public
invited.
The closed sessions will
held at Alfred E. Beach
school with Beta Delta
ILLINOIS GOVERNOR GREETS
1 IBERIAN GUESTS— Gov. greet-1 Ad- j
lai Stevenson of Illinois
ing members of the Liberian i
delegation in the state eapitol!
at Springfield, 111, The Liber-
The How and Why of Dr. Fountain’s
I | Dismissal from Morris Brown College
$19,000 Shortage in School Funds The Primary Cause *
The text of the Bishop
Wnght-Dr Fountain contro-
I vcrs y which was placed
before the Bishops' Council in
I Los Angeles, Calif., last week by
I a committee of leading Georein
AME ministers and laymen dis-
| closes hies in many the startling administration irregular of -
i Dr. W. A. Fountain as president
[ of Morris Brown College. The
I 1 document was read by Bishop
Wright and later released to
Regional
23-24
chapter as hostess. Mrs. Annie
3. Givens Is president of the
ocal chapter and Mrs. Vivian
Valker is chairman of the
ilanning committee.
Delegates are expected from
the under-graduate chapters in
Georgia, Florida, Alabama,
South Carolina, Mississippi and
Tennessee.
Among the social activities
vill be a semi-formal dance at
Lincoln Inn and a tour of his¬
toric Savannah. The latter
entertainment will be sponsored
by the Savannah Pan-Hellenic
Council, Mrs. Eunice W. Clay,
president.
Then there are the educated
gets the idea to play, you mifjht
as well let’em play.
were visiting the
eau plants in several states in
line with their plans for ex-
tensive road development,
Left to rigrt, Harold
U. S. State Dept., Gabriel L.
ck-catea) Sorors Janie L. Blake, Elizabeth L. Gadsden, record
hag-financial secretary; Helen D. Weathers, president; -Mamie
G. Williams, treasurer; and Melissa L. Miller, dean ot pledgees.
Not in picture: Soror Gertrude L. ^jrcene, vice president; and
recent new Sorors Herline G. Julian, Bernice GravesMacon
and Geraldine Ziegler. * ■ ■ *.<*! t I SHE
the newspapers.
The most flagrantly astound¬
ing item in the presentmenl
was the disclosure of a $19,00( :
.shortage in the school’s funds
during Dr. Fountain’s adminis¬
tration.
Although the committee’s
statement furnished irrefutably
damaging evidence against Dr.
Fountain’s conduct of the
school’s affairs the Council’s
action in the matter showed a
IN VIRGINIA COMMUNITY
MANAKIN, Va.— (ANP)-Thi
community was stirred last
week as a result of the burning
of a six-foot cross in front oi
a Negro family’s home here.
The burning cross was discov
ered shortly after 10 o’clock
Saturday evening.
It was the third cross to be
burned in this community
within a week, officials said
Two of the crosses were burned
in Goochland county where
Manakin is 1 ocated and tlw
third id the western section oi
Henrice county.
In each case the crosses wen
burned in fornt of the home:
of Negro tavern owners. Ye
law enforcing officers were un¬
able to give any reason for tht
burnings.
Last week’s cross was burner
in front of the home of Join
B. Pittman, owner of a smai
tavern on State Route 6 , abou<
Dennis, secretary of state for
Liberia, - - - Governor Stevenson,
and Henry B Duncan, secretary
of P'^lic works for Liberia—
(ANP)
decided leaning toward the
Fountain forces by moving
Bishop Wright from Georgia to
Arkansas and placing Bishop S.
L. Green, said to be a Fountain
supporter, over Georgia.
Bishop W. A. Fountain, Sr.,
father of Dr. Fountain, was
moved from Arkansas to Ala¬
bama.
The committee which drew
up the presentment, “The
Fountain Case at Morris
11 miles east of Goochland
courthouse.
According to Pittman, he
heard a commotion in front of
bis home Saturday night and
went out to investigate. When
he went to the front door, the
Liberty County Tr. School
Wins Oratorical Contest
The Liberty County schools
held their annual oratorical
contest at the Liberty Recrea¬
tion Centef, Ilinesville, Febru¬
ary 23.
The program is a gala
ulminatir.'g activity for the
Negro History Week studies. All
pieces used are about and by
Negroes. The eleenlary grades
use poetry and the junior high
pupils use prose. Eleven .schoop
,oo k part in the contest.
The speakers and winner
were as follows: Warren Will¬
iams, Now Free: Shirley Puilan,
Baconton; LeathU Mae Baker,
.ujose mil; Loretta Jobe, Clay-
bank school and Lucretia Pat¬
terson, Liberty County Train¬
ing School, all of group D., Ethel
tContinued on Page Three)
Local NAACP
To Meet To¬
morrow Night
The March meeting of the
local NAACP branch will be
held at the West Broad Street
YMCA tomorrow (Fri.) night at
8 o’clock sharn. Emory O. Jack-
son, fiery editor of a Negro
bi-weekly in Birmingham, Ala-
will deliver a maior address on
the subject. “The NAACP’s
Program of Challenge in the
South.” The Rev. J S. Bryan,
(Continued on Page 7)
BRUNSWICK, Ga„ Mar. 6 -
Ano'her Georgia county came
forth today for equal cducatioi
among the races when a group
of Camden County % Negro ;iti-
zens entered a suit in the U. S
Dislrict Court for educationa
facilities comparable to thost
enjoyed by the whites.
The suit was filed by Alty.
Aaron Kravitch of Savannah
for John M. Holzendorf, W. L
Lofion, B. B. Roberts, Arthur
Whitaker and Gaston Way. win
allege in their petition that they
have exhausted every available
means to have the Camden
County authorities give then
school facilities that are equu
to those of the white schools
This fight with their loco
school authorities, they said
has been waged for over a yea)'
They ask thal Judge Frani
M. Scarlett declare it the’
constitutional right to have
’heir school facilities, teachers
salaries, school buildings am
other item s pertaining tc
schools placed on the samr
basis as those of the white
people.
The suit sets forth that the
coastal county of Camden ha
a population of 6 , 0 C:> and abou*
half is Negro. It describes
•.chool facilities as ‘ very meager
nd very poor” and in no wise
■qunl with those for whites.
It says that whereas the
lementary school buildings for
whites are of modern i,i k
construction, well heated . d
well equipped, those- n. t -
groes an wooden, olo «<, i
(Continued on Page TLiv, )
Brown,” and which requested
that Bishop Wright be allowed
to remain as the reigning pre¬
late over Georgia, was composed
of J. S. Bryan, chairman; D. V.
Kyle, secretary; C. P. Hobbs, W
W. Stephens, E. Reese, J. Frank
Rogers, J. Roy Moore, H. C.
Carswell, J. N. Millar, A. A.
Hightower, B. J. Curry, J. G.
Pcrceii, and B. C. Carswell.”
Here are the salient parts of
the presentment as placed
cross was blazing. He said 5
six white men were running
away as he opened the door.
They jumped into an automo¬
bile parked nearby and drove
away in the direction of Gooch¬
land Court house.
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GARDEN CLUB CELEBRATES The Variety Garden Club cel-
ebrated ........ Its first . at ... the palatial , home . of _ Dr. _ and
anniversary
Mrs. H. M. Collier, Jr. It was a very gala affair.
The members standing, left to right Mrs. E C. Harper, Mrs.
! Paul Steele, Mrs. Luke Simmons. Mrs. Richard Colvin, Mrs. A.
Walker. Mrs. G. B Richardson, Mrs Samuel Jones, Mrs. Clinton
.’ Miller, Mrs. Dean, Mrs J. Martin, Mrs. H M. Collier, Sr, Mrs. L.
Senators AsIc Protection for
GIs from Attacks by Bigots
WASHINGTON - A move to
■nd violence against members
)I the armed services came
Wednesday, February 28, when
ten senators, at the urging of
the Nalionul Association for
he Advancement of Colored
J eoplc, introduced an amend -
nent to S. 1, the pending Re¬
lation on universal military
training.
Sponsors of the amendment
ire Senators Lehman, Humph¬
ry, Douglas, Ives, Hendrickson.
Ben ton, Murray, Kilgore,
Green, and Pastore. A plea to
tranches to make an all out
■ffort to get the amendment
passed was made by Walter
White, executive secretary of
he NAACP, after Senator Leh¬
man, chief sponsor, called on
his fellow senators to vote
favorably on the recommenda¬
tion.
In his speech introducing
lie legislation. Senator Leh-
non said: “There have been
'•eports that members of the
Armed Forces, who are Negro
Aim. i leans, were set upon and
bi iiep up while local police
officers stood by abetting the
atu.m. Such incidents would
bt. punished under Federal law
(C mtintied on Page Tnree;
before the Council by the com¬
mittee:
The Presentment
“The most scandalous and
Cold blooded mishandling of a
College’s funds was that of Dr.
W. A. Fountain from May, 1,948,
to December, 1949. at Morris
College, Atlanta, Georgia.
Bishop Wright's Attitude
Toward President Fountain
“When Bishop Wright came
to Georgia there were some
One of the men, Pittman
said, stuck a pistol out of a
Window of the automobile and
fired five times.
Pittman’s comment was: “I
tan think of no reason why
they picked out me to burn a
cross. the I have run a business in
tio county for years and have
enemies as far as I know.”
Deputy Sheriff John Amos
(Continued on Page Three )
To
Anniversary Sunday
J. T. Green
Grand Chief
The Independent Order of
Samaritans and Daugh¬
ters of Samaria will observe
(Continued on Page 3)
who suggested that he get a
new president, as it had been
the custom for many years for
the new administration to se¬
lect a new man. Bishop Fount¬
ain had put out Dr. J. II. Lewis,
now dean of Payne Seminary,
an educator of learning hold¬
sity ing degrets from Yale Univer¬
and Chicago, and put his
son in as president in spite of
Continued on Page 7
.Ministers
Workers’
] The ministers who are alleged
l<) have advised the striking
vtorkers of the E. A. W. Laundry
th return to work lor the
meager wage of 29 cents per
hour do not speak for tre Sa¬
vannah Baptist Minister^
AHiance, nor arc they members
of the said alliance.'
The Savannah Baptist Min¬
L. Scott, guest, Mrs. Fonvielle. —Photo By Freeman
Seated, Mrs. Morgan Bedgood, Mrs. Georgia Hurd, Mrs.
Nichols, president of the Garden club. Savannah; Mrs. C. A.
Flournoy, president of the Variety Garden club. Mrs. Shelby
My rick, Sr., former president of the Garden club of Savannah,
and principal speaker at the affair: Mrs. Hamilton, scrap boot
chairman of the Garden club, arid Mrs , h M Collier, Jr. _
THE NEGRO PRESS
Crusader for Freedom
observes
PRESS WEEK
March 11 17
In Commemoration of It#
124th Anniversary
Maj. Campbell
Now Colonel
TUSKHGEE INSTITUTE, Ala.
Major William A. Campbell,
son of Mr. and Mrs. T. M.
Campbell of Tuskegee Institute,
who has been serving as Man¬
agement Analyst in the Far
East Air Forces Headquarters In
Tokyo since last July, has re¬
cently been promoted to Lieu¬
tenant Colonel.
During World War II , Lt.
Colonel Campbel was awarded
an Oak Leaf Cluster to his
Distinguished Flying Cross in
lieu of a Second DFC. It was
awarded for heroism and extra¬
ordinary achievement In flight.
He held the admiration and
respect of officers and men
alike for the manner in which
he led the 99th Fighter Squad¬
ron in combat as its squadron
commander in the Mediterran¬
ean and European Theaters ot
War.
Lt. Colonel Campbell is a
graduate of Tuskegee Institute.
Laundry
isters Alliance fully supports
the striking workers in their
demand for increased wages
and better working conditions.
Have you met people who
talk all the time without giving
you any idea of what they have
on their minds?